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Cable Car Crash Survivor Needs to Return to Italy

The Tel Aviv Family Court on Monday ruled that Eitan Biran, 6, who lost his parents and younger brother in a cable car crash, must be returned to Italy.

In her ruling, Judge Iris Ilotovich-Segal rejected the claim of Eitan’s maternal grandfather, Shmuel Peleg, that the child’s place of residence was Israel, since his parents are Israeli and were in Italy for university studies. She also rejected the claim that Eitan’s paternal aunt Aya Biran did not have custody rights.

According to the court ruling, Peleg violated Aya Biran’s custody rights in bringing the child to Israel without her knowledge or consent.

“The court did not accept the grandfather’s claim that Israel was the minor’s regular residence, nor the claim that the minor had two regular residences – Israel and Italy. The minor, a six-year-old boy, moved with his entire family to Italy when he was only a month old,” Judge Ilotovich-Segal wrote in her ruling.

She added, “When the grandfather came with the minor to Israel, the grandfather removed the minor from his normal place of residence, an unlawful removal, thereby violating the rights of custody. This is not a decision regarding the benefit of the minor; the continuation of the conflict in Italy must be allowed.”

The court also ruled that Peleg must pay court expenses amounting to NIS 70,000 ($22,539).

Following the Israeli court’s ruling, an Italian court issued an international arrest warrant for Shmuel Peleg, on suspicion that he kidnapped his grandson.

Joint Maritime Exercise

The militaries of Israel, the U.S., Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) kicked off last Wednesday a multilateral maritime security operations exercise, the U.S. Naval Forces Command Central (NAVCENT) said on Thursday.

The Red Sea exercise lasted five days and is the first public naval exercise Israel has held with the UAE and Bahrain since the signing of the Abraham Accords last year.

According to NAVCENT, the exercise includes training on the USS Portland and will “enhance interoperability between participating forces’ maritime interdiction teams.”

Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of NAVCENT, U.S. 5th Fleet and Combined Maritime Forces, said, “Maritime collaboration helps safeguard freedom of navigation and the free flow of trade, which are essential to regional security and stability.”

On Sunday, November 7, Iran kicked off a military exercise including air, ground, and naval forces, operating from the area north of the Indian Ocean to parts of the Red Sea. The Iranian exercise also integrated the use of drones, manned aircraft, special forces, and defensive and offensive missile systems.

Shin Bet Chief Met with Abbas

New Shin Bet security service chief Ronen Bar met last week with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. The two reportedly discussed security coordination in the West Bank and efforts to reach a long-term ceasefire between Israel and the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group.

This was the first time the two have met.

The new government, which took office in June, has taken steps to boost trust with the Palestinians, despite the fact that there are currently no public peace talks being held with the Palestinian Authority.

Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with Abbas in August, the first such public meeting between high-level Israeli and Palestinian officials in over a decade. At a briefing following the meeting, Gantz called for the PA to be bolstered as a bulwark against Hamas and other terror groups.

In October, Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz and Regional Development Minister Isawi Frej, both from the leftwing Meretz party, met with Abbas in Ramallah.

Horowitz said after the meeting that his party was working to “keep the two-state solution alive” within Israel’s current government, which is headed by the right-wing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.

Abbas has reportedly for months been trying unsuccessfully to hold a meeting with Ra’am party leader Mansour Abbas. Ra’am, an Arab Israeli Islamist party, is also member of the Israeli government coalition.

On Sunday, Bar reportedly visited Egypt for talks with his Egyptian counterpart that also addressed Gaza. He was reportedly part of an Israeli delegation to Cairo that included Bennett’s national security adviser, Eyal Hulata.

The meeting, like previous ones in recent months, was aimed at discussing the situation in the Gaza Strip and the continuation of a potential comprehensive long-term truce process with the Hamas terror group.

Fatal Shooting in German Colony

in Jerusalem’s German Colony neighborhood.

The incident occurred near the city’s Orient Hotel. Both victims are residents of one of Jerusalem’s Arab neighborhoods. One of the victims, a man in his 30s, was treated at the scene and was evacuated in critical condition to a Jerusalem hospital, where he later died of his wounds. The other victim suffered light injuries.

Initial investigations show that the incident was criminal, and not nationalist, in nature, and that the two victims worked together at a nearby construction site.

United Hatzalah EMT Yishai Solomon, who was one of the first responders at the scene, said, “Together with other EMS personnel, I treated two people who were injured; one was in critical condition and another was in moderate condition.

“We performed CPR on the young man who was in critical condition at the scene of the incident. Additionally, we also treated a man in his 40s who was transported by a United Hatzalah ambulance to Shaare Zedek in moderate condition.”

3 Top Mossad Officials Resign

Three senior officials in Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency announced that they would resign following decisions by new Mossad chief David Barnea.

According to Channel 13, the resignations took place over the past few weeks, and the three officials who resigned were at the top of the agency, comparable to major-generals in the IDF.

Reports said that the three who quit were the head of operations, head of the technology division, and head of the counter-terrorism branch. The reports added that a fourth senior official is also considering stepping down.

Barnea has worked in the Mossad for 25 years and was appointed to be former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen’s

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deputy in 2019. In June of this year, Barnea took the reins of the spy agency from Cohen.

It is claimed that the officials’ resignation was directly connected to organizational decisions made by Barnea regarding division of responsibilities and splitting existing branches.

New Electronic Warfare Systems

The Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) on Thursday revealed a unique family of new electronic warfare (EW) systems capable of combatting a variety of threats, including UAVs, ships, missiles, and radar systems.

The “Scorpius” family of systems scans the entire surrounding area for targets, deploying narrowly focused beams to interfere with multiple threats and disrupting the operations of electromagnetic systems, including radar, navigation, electronic sensors, and data communications. The Scorpius also has “unprecedented” sensitivity and transmission power.

The family includes five systems: ground, naval, air - self-protection, air - standoff jammer, and training. The training system was used during the recent international Blue Flag exercise.

IAI Intelligence Division General Manager Adi Dulberg said, “The modern battlefield depends on the electromagnetic domain for sensing, communications and navigation. Protecting the use of the electromagnetic domain for our forces, while denying its use by the enemy, has become mission-critical for success in combat and for ensuring the superiority of our forces in the field.”

He added, “The new technology, developed by IAI’s talented engineers, tips the scale of electronic warfare, providing world-first breakthrough capabilities for electronic defense and disrupting enemy systems.”

Israeli Couple Held in Turkey

A Turkish court on Friday decided to extend the remand of an arrested Israeli couple by 20 days.

Mordy and Natali Oknin were arrested last week for photographing the palace of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erodgan. Although initial reports said they would be deported, according to Channel 12 News, the couple is suspected of espionage and the Turkish court has extended their remand.

Channel 12 reported that, during the Friday hearing, a representative of the Turkish prosecutor’s office claimed that the couple photographed security positions and cameras, marked their photos, and sent them to a third party.

Meanwhile, a local lawyer representing the Israelis said that they did not know it was forbidden to photograph Erdogan’s palace and that the photos were intended for their family.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid), and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) have all spoken with the Oknins and emphasized that Israel is doing all it can to bring the pair home.

The Foreign Ministry also emphasized that the couple does not have connections to anyone in the Israeli government and is not acting on behalf of any government body.

On Monday, the Turkish government approved a visit by representatives of Israel’s Consulate in Istanbul. A date for the visit has not yet been set.

In a Sunday statement, Bennett emphasized the couple’s innocence and said, “The Foreign Minister and I, and additional officials, dealt with this

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